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Developer Nolan Lawson has published an essay arguing that AI coding assistants favor popular JavaScript frameworks and generate code whose complexity and bundle size carry real costs. He contends that prompting tools toward heavyweight solutions can bloat performance and maintainability, and urges developers to weigh whether a framework is needed at all when AI writes the code.

Around 150 AD, in the town of Abonoteichus on the Black Sea coast of Paphlagonia, in what is now northern Turkey, a snake god named Glycon appeared, complete with a human-like face. The story is being retold alongside that of the satirist Lucian, who wrote a book trying to expose the god and its prophet Alexander as a fraud, making it a striking ancient tale of religion, showmanship and debunking.